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Chicago Alternative Comics (CAKE) Kick-off with Gabrielle Bell, Emil Ferris, Lucy Knisley and C. Spike Trotman on 6/9
Quimby’s welcomes Gabrielle Bell, Lucy Knisley, Emil Ferris and C. Spike Trotman as read their recent work as a kick-off for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE). This event is at Quimby’s on June 9th at 7pm, but the tabling exhibition happens June 10th & 11th at the Center on Halsted.
CAKE is a weekend-long celebration of independent comics, inspired by Chicago’s rich legacy as home to many of underground and alter- native comics’ most talented artists– past, present and future. Featuring comics for sale, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and more, CAKE is dedicated to fostering community and dialogue amongst independent artists, small presses, publishers and readers.
Gabrielle Bell was born in London, England and raised in California. She is the author of six books, including The Voyeurs, Truth is Fragmentary and most recently, Everything is Flammable. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Emil Ferris is the author of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters – Part 1 (Fantagraphics). She is also a painter, writer, illustrator and sculptor for the toy industry.
Lucy Knisley is an award-winning comic artist and author who specializes in personal, confessional comics that deal with memory, travel, family and traditions. Her latest graphic novel, Something New; Tales from a Makeshift Bride, deals with her struggle to modernize and equalize her wedding, and the meaning behind many matrimonial traditions.
Spike was born in DC, grew up in MD, and lives in IL, with a dog and a man. She’s the founder of Iron Circus Comics, responsible for strange and amazing books such Poorcraft, the Smut Peddler series and more.
For more info: cakechicago.com
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New Stuff This Week
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! #CHIBD17 #mychicagobookstore
*ZINES*
Prism Pop by Alicia Obermeyer and Miriam Dubinsky $20.00
For Everard vol 6 $5.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Crickets #6 by Sammy Harkham $8.00
Minor Leagues #3 by Simon Moreton $4.00
Shit I’ve Cried About #1 Trends Emerge & #2 Trends Remain by S. Meyer $4.00 each
Weird Magazine #6 by Noel Freibert $12.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Hostage by Guy Delisle (D&Q) $29.95
Her Bark and Her Bite by James Albon (Top Shelf) $9.99
*ART & DESIGN*
The Dirtyland: The Art of Brian M. Viveros (Gingko) $40.00
Retro Graphics (Gingko) $40.00
*FICTION*
Josh Was Raised by Igor Guk $12.00
Everything is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person by Daniel Zomparelli (Arsenal Pulp Press) $15.95
*POLITICAL BOOKS*
Democracy Now: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America by Amy Goodman $16.00
*ESSAYS*
I Know What I’m Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman $15.99 – Now in soft cover.
*FOOD BOOKS*
The Baristas Bible by Olga Carryer (Gingko) $19.95
*MAGAZINES*
Maximumrocknroll #408 May 17 $4.99
Wax Poetics #66 Spr 17 Reconstructing DJ Shadow #11.99
Videoscope #102 Spr 17 $6.95
Neural #56 Win 16 $7.99
Mojo #282 May 17 $10.99
Cannabis Now #25 Mar Apr May 17 $7.99
Ugly Things #44 Things to Come $9.95
Shindig #65 Traffic $12.99
Dissent Spr 17 $10.00
*LIT JOURNALS*
N+1 Deep End #28 Spr 17 $14.95
*SEXY*
Small Favors: The Definitive Collection by Colleen Coover (Limerence Press) $29.99
Elska #11 Providence Rhode Island $18.50
Reflekt Style Anthology #14 Sex $12.00
*KIDS BOOKS*
Wordplay by Ivan Brunetti (Toon) $12.00 – Yup. You read it right. Ivan Brunetti did a kids book!
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Nurse-cartoonist MK Czerwiec Reads From Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 5/25
MK Czerwiec’s (pronounced sir-wick) new book Taking Turns (Penn State University Press) shares the story of Unit 371, a shining example of excellence in the treatment and care of patients. Unit 371 was a community for thousands of patients and families affected by HIV and AIDS and the people who cared for them. This graphic novel combines Czerwiec’s memories with the oral histories of patients, family members, and staff. It depicts life and death in the ward, the ways the unit affected and informed those who passed through it, and how many look back on their time there today.
Deeply personal yet made up of many voices, this history of daily life in a unique AIDS care unit is an open, honest look at suffering, grief, and hope among a community of medical professionals and patients at the heart of the epidemic
“MK Czerwiec’s tales of her nursing work on an AIDS unit chart a remarkable episode in the history of medicine. Through the lives and deaths of individual patients, written and drawn in documentary detail, we see the power dynamic between doctor and patient begin to shift. When cure is not an option, care takes on a new meaning.” –Alison Bechdel
Czerwiec is a leader in the field of Graphic Medicine, which examines the intersection of comics and health, illness, and care giving. Czerwiec is a co-author of the Graphic Medicine Manifesto (Penn State University Press, 2015), which was nominated for an Eisner Award. She has also self-published three collections of comics, Comic Nurse, Comic Nurse Delivers Another Dose, and Scars, Stories, and Other Adventures.
For more info: www.comicnurse.com
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Thurs, May 25th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
ANSWER Me! All Four Issues by Jim Goad and Debbie Goad (Nine-Banded Books) $30.00 – For the first time ever, all four issues (including THAT one, yes). Billed as “The Only Magazine Worth Hating,” this version comes with extras, including previously unpublished material!
*ZINES*
Judas Goat Quarterly #73 Spr 17 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
The Match #116 Sum 17 $3.00
Chrome Shop Next Exit by Nick Capozzoli $6.66
Lot of Options by David Pregerson $10.00
Communicating Vessels #28 Spr Sum 17 $3.50
Revolutionary Women #1 Patsy T. Mink, #2 Dolores Huerta & #3 Ida B Wells $5.00 each
Sick Muse #7 Apr 17 $5.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Berlin #20 by Jason Lutes (D+Q) $5.95 – With its twentieth issue, one of the biggest graphic novel events of the early 21st century is fast-approaching—the completion of Jason Lutes’ epic Berlin series. Here, the inevitable antagonist of the tale of pre-WWII Germany begins to take center stage. Marthe and Kurt find their way back to each other—he, from the bottom of the bottle and she, from a one-sided relationship. Fascism creeps into every corner of society, but some can see it better than others.
Gaylord Phoenix #7 by Edie Fake (Perfectly Acceptable Press) $15.00 – Edie Fake returns to his award-winning, abstract-o queer comic series after a seven year hiatus.
I Cant Help It and I Cant Stop It by Matt Haas $5.00
No One is Born Complete by Jarad Solomon $8.00
Fiends #2 Spr 17 by Tim Tyler $10.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Hypothetical Love Triangle by Henna Rasanen (Cats Who Cater Comics) $20.00
The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History by Jon Morris $24.95
Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristin Radtke $29.95
Roughneck by Jeff Lemire $29.99
Animals of a Bygone Era: An Illustrated Compendium by Maja Säfström $14.99
Stripburger #68 $8.00 – Comics from artists all over the world: Bruno Borges (Portugal), Erik Svetoft (Sweden), Izar Luna?ek, (Slovenia) and more!
*ART & DESIGN*
Junk Type: Typography – Lettering – Badges – Logos by Bill Rose and Mike Essl $35.00 – A graphic compendium of vintage American design and typography.
Talk About Street Art edited by Jerome Catz and Elisabeth Couturier $9.98 – Anthology about this underappreciated, ephemeral, and illegal art form.
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION*
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia $26.95 – Fiery intellectual provocateur Paglia’s essays about sex, gender and feminism collected in one concise volume.
The Age of Inequality: Corporate America’s War on Working People edited by Jeremy Gantz (Verso) $24.95 – The stories behind the inequality crisis—a forty-year investigation by In These Times. Featuring contributions from Chomsky, Žižek, Bernie Sanders, Arundhati Roy & more.
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Slavoj Žižek (Melville House) $17.99 – Draws insights from phenomena as diverse as “Gangnam Style” to Marx, The Dark Knight to Thatcher.
Enemies of Society: An Anthology of Individualist and Egoist Thought by various (Nine-Banded Books) $20.00
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World by Kelly Jensen $16.95
*ESSAYS*
Bit Rot: stories + essays by Douglas Coupland $27.00
*OUTER LIMITS*
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler $28.00
A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life by Ayelet Waldman $25.95
Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes–Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers by Michael Arntfield & Marcel Danesi $24.00
Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year by Michael Farquhar $14.99 – Now in soft cover!
The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes by Frank Bures $16.99 – Now in soft cover!
Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief From the Oval Office by Brian Abrams, illustrated by John Mathias $14.95
*FICTION*
The Familiar, Volume 4: Hades by Mark Z. Danielewski $26.95 – Fourth book in the acclaimed series from the author of House of Leaves.
A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh $16.95 – Adventures of ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson: top shagger, drug dealer, gonzo pornstar, and taxi driver.
The Erstwhile: The Vorrh (2) by Brian Catling $16.95 – Sequel to The Vorrh. The angels that failed to protect the Tree of Knowledge are reanimating themselves, and their reawakening will have major consequences.
Mountainhead by New Juche (Nine-Banded Books) $15.00
*MUSIC BOOKS*
Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff by Michael Nesmith $28.00 – Put on your knit cap and journey from the the set of The Monkees to the heart of swinging London and beyond!
*FILM BOOKS*
Make Trouble by John Waters, illustrated by Eric Hanson $14.95 – Based on the graduation speech Waters gave to RISD grads. Eavesdrop, he tells them, and listen to your enemies, and horrify with new ideas! The perfect advice for artists of any age.
Splatter Capital: A Guide for Surviving the Horror We Collectively Inhabit by Mark Steven (Repeater Books) $14.95 – A discussion about splatter horror films as a metaphor for the nightmare of systematized bloodshed caused by capitalist accumulation.
*FOOD BOOKS*
Clara Cakes: Delicious and Simple Vegan Desserts for Everyone! by Clara Polito (PowerHouse) $24.95 – She sold her cakes at punk shows. Now get her recipes!
Tiki Cocktails: 200 Super Summery Drinks by David Adams, illustrated by Heather Menzies $19.95 – Alongside quintessential tiki recipes, Tiki Cocktails also includes some more modern takes on tiki concoctions.
*HUMOR*
From The London Library’s “Found on the Shelves” series:
*Cycling: The Craze of the Hour by Charles Spencer & friends $9.95 – From that velocipede craze of the 1890s!
*On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind by Lewis Carroll and William Banting $10.95 – Tweedledum and Tweedledee — fat seemed to be getting fatter under Queen Victoria! Lewis Carroll and overweight undertaker William Banting elaborate on the vices of consuming too much “fatty” food and culture. Oddly prescient for our contemporary culture full of crappy media overload.
*The Gentlewoman’s Book of Sports by Lady Greville and Lady Colin Campbell $10.95 – It wasn’t easy being a sportswoman at the end of the nineteenth century!CraftFail: When Homemade Goes Horribly Wrong by Heather Mann $12.95 – From the files of CraftFail.com!
*OTHER*
Lamia Enamel Pin by Corinne Halbert $10.00
Yellow Owl Workshop Risograph Print Blank Cards! $4.50 each.
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Take the #MyChicagoBookstore Challenge on Independent Bookstore Day 4/29
On Saturday, April 29th Quimby’s Bookstore, along with two dozen independent bookstores all over the Chicago area, are collaborating to make this year’s Independent Bookstore Day (IBD) an event that celebrates the vibrancy of Chicagoland as a dream destination for book lovers. Each store creates its own unique events and Quimby’s is no exception.
Quimby’s is celebrating IBD in two ways. First, we welcome co-authors Steven Nodine and Eric Beaumont will celebrate the release of Brick Through the Window: An Oral History of Punk Rock, New Wave & Noise in Milwaukee, 1964-1984, celebrating our midwest sister city Milwaukee (because hey, let’s show some major metropolises the love on this one-day party). More info on that event at 7pm here.
Secondly, Quimby’s will collaborate with at least 24 stores, jointly sponsoring the #MyChicagoBookstore Challenge, which encourages book lovers to indulge in bookstore tourism by visiting 10 or more stores on that one day.
To begin their trip, readers can pick up a #MyChicagoBookstore carabiner and their first “luggage tag” from the store of their choice (from any of the independent bookstores listed below) with an initial purchase of $25 or more. Get it? “Luggage Tag,” as in Chicago being a dream destination for book lovers? As in, where books take you, somewhere?! SO CLEVER.
Bookstore visits throughout the day (no purchase required) enable them to collect an additional tag at each subsequent bookstore. The payoff comes for visits at the following levels:
- Visit TEN stores and get 10% off at all bookstores listed below for the ENTIRE YEAR!
- Visit FIFTEEN stores and get 15% off at all bookstores listed below for the ENTIRE YEAR!
Also, readers are encouraged to post a snapshot of themselves and their Independent Bookstore Day haul, and enter to win more prizes!
On Twitter: Use #CHIBD17 or @chibookstore
The #MyChicagoBookstore Challenge is being sponsored by the Chicagoland Independent Bookstore Allliance (ChIBA), an association formed last year to raise awareness about the vitality of the area’s indie stores. ChIBA also maintains a Facebook page–#MyChicagoBookstore—where all member stores can post readings and other literary events to create one central “billboard” for literary culture in the greater Chicago area.
#MyChicagoBookstore Luggage Tag Challenge Participating Stores:Quimby’s Bookstore 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago
57th Street Books 1301 E. 57th St., Chicago
Anderson’s Bookshop (three stores): 5112 Main St., Downers Grove, 26 S. La Grange Rd., La Grange, 123 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville
The Book Bin 151 Church St., Northbrook
The Book Cellar 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago
The Book Stall Chestnut Court, 811 Elm St., Winnetka
The Book Table 1045 Lake St., Oak Park
Bookends & Beginnings 1712 Sherman Ave., Alley #1, Evanston
Bookie’s 2419 W. 103rd St., Chicago
Centuries and Sleuths 7419 Madison St., Forest Park
Magic Tree Bookstore 141 N. Oak Park Ave., Oak Park
Newberry Library Bookshop 60 W. Walton St., Chicago
Open Books (two stores): 905 W. 19th St., Chicago (Pilsen), 651 W. Lake St., Chicago (West Loop)
Powell’s Books Chicago 1501 E. 57th St., Chicago
Read It & Eat 2142 N. Halsted St., Chicago
RoscoeBooks 2142 W. Roscoe St., Chicago
Sandmeyer’s Bookstore 714 S. Dearborn St., Chicago
Seminary Co-op Bookstore 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago
Volumes Bookcafe 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
Wicker Park Secret Agent Supply Co./826CHI 1276 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
Women & Children First 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago
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Allen Callaci Reads From Heart Like a Starfish at Quimby’s 6/29
Heart transplant recipient and lead singer of lo-fi pioneers Refrigerator Allen Callaci will make his first ever appearance in Chicago to sing a few songs and read from his memoir Heart Like a Starfish (Pelekinesis Press).Heart Like a Starfish is Callaci’s account of that death-defying journey on which he had been given a 20% chance of survival. Callaci’s wonderfully chaotic tale is filled with music and pop cultural references and is told in a Kurt Vonnegut-esque style that captures the horror, humor and healing of his experience.
Callaci has written for The Huffington Post, BK Nation, Inland Weekly and was selected as Inlandia Institute’s author of the week. Heart Like a Starfish was selected as a recommendation by Small Press Distribution for December 2016.
“An inherent and consistently engaging read from beginning to end, “Heart Like A Starfish” is highly recommended for community library American Biography collections.” – Midwest Book Review, November 2016
“Allen shares his amazing story by locating his personal experience in the midst of a network of relationships that sustain and define his life.” –John Davis (Folk Implosion)
“For any generation… An astonishing story about how close life is to death.” – Claudia Lennear, featured singer in the Oscar-winning documentary “20 FEET FROM STARDOM”
Thurs, June 29th, 7pm – Free Event
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DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH at Quimby’s! Keiler Roberts Releases SUNBURNING & Jay Ryan Releases NO ONE TOLD ME NOT TO DO THIS, 5/20
Keiler Roberts writes autobiographical comics. Sunburning, published by Koyama Press, is her fourth book in the Ignatz winning series Powdered Milk. keilerroberts.com
“Keiler Roberts’ autobiographical graphic memoir captures the feeling of being a parent as well as an artist and writer better than any book I’ve ever read. There are no cliff-hangers or life lessons. It’s more about the texture of being alive: the melancholy, the unexpected small delights, and its unavoidable sense of aloneness. This book is written with insight, intelligence, and a deadpan sense of humor. I loved it.” — Roz Chast
Jay Ryan has been making screenprints and concert posters in and around Chicago since 1995. No One Told Me Not To Do This (Akashic) is his third book collecting his favorite work, featuring prints made between 2009 and 2015, including posters for bands such as Andrew Bird, Shellac, My Morning Jacket, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Hum, St. Vincent, and others, as well as posters featuring Lil BUB, Cards Against Humanity, various bicycle races, film screenings, and pictures of sloths, walruses, and other mammals in states of troubled sleep. With a foreword by master illustrator Aaron Horkey, this volume comprises two hundred screenprints with commentary and original drawings used in the screenprinting process. thebirdmachine.com
Jay and Keiler are friends who live in Evanston and both have daughters in kindergarten.
Sat May 20th, 7pm – Free Event
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New Stuff This Week
Chronicles of Fortune by Coco Picard (Radiator Comics) $20.00 – Originally published as a series of minicomics, this quirky and idiosyncratic adventure of Fortuna, the greatest superhero (tragically stricken with ennui), is now collected into a single volume from Radiator Comics! Coco Picard’s The Chronicles of Fortune follows the lives of Fortuna, and her alter-ego, Edith-May as they learn to cope with loss, recruiting a team of friends along the way! Discover a temperamental stove, a nosy mountain, a goofy crocodile, a loner moth, and a singing goldfish as they lead Fortuna on her greatest adventure! At once charming, sad, funny, poignant, and bizarre, The Chronicles of Fortune keeps one foot in mundane reality.
*ZINES*
Moon Archives vol 1 $12.00
Cheap Toys #19 $2.00
Star Spangled Banner by Joseph Wilcox $3.00
Japan Photo Zine $20.00
Field Study: Notes and Findings In the American Southwest $15.00
*COMICS & MINIS*
Babybel Wax Bodysuit by Eric Kostiuk Williams (Retrofit) $6.00
Good Guy #1 $4.00
Grixly #38 by Nate McDonough $2.00
Rainpuppy by James O’Boyle $12.00 – This happy little dog travels around much like Mary Poppins and encounters several different species of magical creatures upon the way. ~CH
Death Party by Mony Nunez $5.00
Murder Moon by Kristal DiFronzo $8.00
Curled Up Around A Wound by Opal Pence $12.00
Sweaty vol 1 $12.00
Bull Whip #1 All Time Comics by Josh Bayer and friends (Fantagraphics) $3.99
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
The Artist by Anna Haifisch (Breakdown Press) $19.99 – A hilarious and heart-wrenching comedy exposing the absurdity of the fine art world as experienced by a young artist.
Red Red Rock: And Other Stories by Hayashi Seiichi (Breakdown Press) $26.99 – A definitive, career-spanning collection of stories from one of Japan’s most famous alternative cartoonists, work from 1967 to the early 70s.
*ART & DESIGN*
Alcohol: Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters, edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell (FUEL Publishing) $32.50 – Playful yet sobering posters from the 1960s to ’80s in the Soviet Union, from the publishers of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedias and Soviet Space Dogs.
Stickerbomb Graffiti Journal by SRK $12.99
THE THING Postcard Book: James Franco by James Franco and The Thing Quarterly $14.95 – Are there any hats that James Franco doesn’t wear?
The Box by Brian McMullen $14.95 – Weirdo blank journal that lets you think both in and out of the box for once!
The Tattoo Flash Coloring Book by MEGAMUNDEN $15.99 – Includes a full-color, pull-out gatefold, and two sticker sheets.
*MUSIC & FILM BOOKS*
The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World by Damon Krukowski (New Press) $24.95 – A radical defense of analog craft in the face of the digital hard sell, from former Galaxie 500/current half of Damon & Naomi. Don’t miss Damon here at Quimby’s on 5/2 with Steve Albini and Bob Weston talking about this book!
Prince: the Coloring Book, edited By Darius James (Feral House) $15.95 – If de-elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy…With crayons. Contributing artists include: Tony Millionaire, Corinne Halbert, Casanova Frankenstein, Mica O’Herlihy, and many more.
*FICTION*
Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell (McSweeneys) $24.00
*LOCAL INTEREST*
Chicago Monumental by Larry Broutman (Lake Claremont Press) $50.00 – Full-color photographs of over 250 Chicago statues, memorials, fountains, and monuments. Comes with 3D glasses for a special bonus section!
Chicago Unleashed by Larry Broutman (Lake Claremont Press) $29.50 – Whimsical, tongue-in-cheek modified photos that combine wildlife with Chicago landmarks created for a children’s hospital. A real lion posing under the Art Institute lions! Hippos in the Chicago River! Kangaroos at Montrose Beach! You get the idea.
Draining Chicago: The Early City and the North Area by Richard Lanyon (Lake Claremont Press) $21.95 – The complicated, ever-changing, and surprising story of draining Chicago by retired executive director of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
*MAGS*
Wire #398 Apr 17 Residents $10.99
AdBusters #131 vol 25 #3 May June 17 $14.95
Uppercase #33 A Magazine for the Creative and Curious $18.00
Offscreen #16 The Human Side of Technology $20.00
*CHAP BOOKS & LIT JOURNALS*
Number You Are Trying to Reach by Zachary Zalman Green $12.00
All Will be Fragile by Emily Greer #1 $5.50
Asterisms vol 1 An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Poetry $15.00
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New Stuff This Week
Thanks to the lovely and talented CZF co-organizer and zinester Anna Jo Beck for our rockin’ Chicago Zine Fest window installation!
Cinema Sewer #30 Special 20 Year Anniversary Issue $8.00 – From the words of the publisher himself, Robin Bougie: “Well, this is it! The culmination of 20 years of hard work! Issue thirty of Cinema Sewer magazine! YAY! Here’s to another 20 years (hopefully!) When I started CS at the age of 23, I had no idea what was to come, and it certainly wasn’t anything meant to be permanent. It was just yet another mini-comic series, of which I had done dozens of previously. How time flies, and look at how this sleazy little zine has grown…So, let’s have a look at what’s in this special oversized anniversary issue — the biggest ever issue of CS clocking in at 60 all-new pages! The cover is by Ben Newman — don’t worry folks — she’s 20! It even says right there under her young buttcheeks! ^_^ There are interviews with adult star Porsche Lynn, and Keith Prince (the son of AVON films smut legend Phil Prince), and there are dozens of reviews, articles, and comics about vintage cult cinema! Just a few of the films covered are: The Howling, Freeway, A Gun For Jennifer, Super Lady Cop, Whore, Human Condom Woman, Attack of The Beast Creatures, The Running Man, Blood Of Heroes, Star Crash, The Muthers, and the Playboy Roller Disco and Pajama Party TV special! To top it all off, since this is a very special issue, I’ve done a FULL COLOR over-sized pull-out poster that comes with every issue, which features all the covers from all 30 issues! Hot diggity doggies!” Order it here.
*ZINES*
Schmalz #2 Writing About Jewish Food and Diaspora by Isaac Brosilow $7.00 – Writing About Jewish Food and Diaspora, this issue contains an interview with A, the Secret History of Soviet Matzoh and a recipe for Potato Kugel.
King Dumb Come by Veronica Leto $6.00
I Am Junky Zine $5.00 – Part of an untitled series where the anonymous author uses quotes from their favorite public figures as starting off points for personal essays, this one is dedicated to William S. Burroughs. Love, death, sadness, addiction, pleasure — everything you’d expect from Uncle Bill, proof that his work inspires future generations of writers to mull over the big cut-up questions. -LM
Chew This by Carol Sogard $7.00
Rebel Rain by Veronica Leto $8.00
Crawl by Jesse Fillingham $12.00 – Stunning and exquisitely rendered characters and spaces that create a myth ridden dreamscape. ~CH
Raw, Extremely Necessary Manifesto by Veronica Leto $4.00 – You want your upliftingness to be cool and not cheesy, right? Well here’s your chance to be inspired without all the embarrassment of it feeling all Lifetime channel life-affirming. With quotes commanding the reader to “Protect your passion from all that rat race bullshit, or you will start to shrink small enough to where a few inches of water will threaten your survival” it feels a little bit like reading a punk rock Dale Carnegie. That’s what we all want, right? -LM
*COMICS*
Love and Rockets Magazine #2 by Gilbert and Jamie Hernandez (Fantagraphics) $4.99
Bad Drawings of Garfield #1 by Caroline Cash $5.00 – A cursed image, Garfield might be on drugs and Jon Arbuckle has some pretty heavy revelations about the potential meaning of art. ~CH
Ganges #6 by Kevin Huizenga $8.00 – The Eisner and Harvey nominated and Ignatz winning series is back again. In this mindblowing issue Glenn Ganges’ long battle with insomnia comes to a complicated close. Glenn and his wife Wendy also learn productivity tips from a TED talk in “The 2 Minute Mind”. Every page is a jam-packed jewel retina display of cartooning power.
Work In Progress #3 by August LeRoi $7.00
Thrill Of Living In A Dying Empire #2 by Mission Mini Comix $1.00
How To Talk To Your Doctor About Your Testicles $4.00
*GRAPHIC NOVELS*
Run Comics Oct 2013 through April 2016 by Ryan Burns $20.00
I Am a Hero vol 3 Omnibus by Kengo Hanazawa $19.99
Illustra Sean Year #3 by Sean Dempsey $20.00
Lumberjanes vol 6 Sink Or Swim $14.99
*POLITICS & REVOLUTION BOOKS*
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore $17.00 – Now in soft cover.
*OUTER LIMITS & MAYHEM*
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn $28.00
In Our Own Image: Savior Or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence by George Zarkadakis $16.95
*FICTION*
Blood Is Thicker Part One by Silas H. Patterson $16.99
*MAGS*
Maximumrocknroll #407 Apr 2017 $4.99
Juxtapoz #196 May 2017 $6.99
Razorcake #97 Allison Wolfe $4.00
2600 the Hacker Quarterly vol 34 #1 Spr 2017 $6.95
True Crime Mar 2017 $9.99
Shindig #64 Curtis Mayfield $12.99
Nostalgia Digest Spr 2017 William Powell and Myrna Loy $4.50
Skeptic vol 22 #1 2017 $6.95
Laphams Quarterly vol 10 #2 Spr 2017 Discovery $18.00
Rethinking Schools vol 31 #3 Spr 2017 $5.95
High Times Best of #83 2017 Growing Big $6.99
TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly vol 4 #1 Feb 2017 $12.00
Radical History Review #127 Jan 2017 $14.00
Inked #83 Ryan Ashley Apr 2017 $6.99
New Politics vol 16 #2 $7.00
Skeptical Inquirer vol 41 #2 Mar Apr 2017 $5.99
Horror Hound #64 Mar Apr 2017 $6.99
Atlantis Rising #123 Mar Apr 17 $6.95
GLQ vol 23 #2 Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Apr 2017 $12.00
Bomb #139 Spr 2017 $10.00
*LIT JOURNALS*
Sobotka Literary Magazine #2 & #3 $10.00 each
Hedgehog Review vol 19 #1 Spr 2017 $12.00
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Free Comic Book Day 5/6
Yes, we will have some free comics at the store (while supplies last). But the real celebration that weekend is Chicago Zine Fest! Go read some fun mini-comics there! More info about CZF 2017 at chicagozinefest.org.